Advances in Information Retrieval [electronic resource] : 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings / edited by Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Vassilis Plachouras, Ian Ruthven, Ryen W. White.
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4956Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008Description: XXI, 722 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540786467
- Computer science
- Database management
- Data mining
- Information storage and retrieval
- Multimedia information systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer Science
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Database Management
- Information Storage and Retrieval
- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
- Multimedia Information Systems
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- QA76.9.D343

Invited Presentations -- Evaluation -- Web IR -- Social Media -- Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval -- Theory I -- Video -- Representation I -- Wikipedia and E-Books -- Expert Search -- Representation II -- Theory II -- Short Papers -- Posters -- Workshop Summaries -- Tutorials.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.